Cohesity expands its CERT service with incident response vendor partnerships

Cohesity has expanded the Cohesity Cyber Event Response Team (CERT) service to include partnerships with leading incident response (IR) vendors. The Cohesity CERT team has years of specialized incident response expertise and has helped numerous customers respond and recover quickly from high-stakes security events since its formation in 2021. By partnering with leading IR vendors such as Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, Arctic Wolf, Sophos, Fenix24, and Semperis, Cohesity CERT augments the traditional IR process, infusing rich data and backup and recovery expertise, helping to speed investigations and enable customers to recover quicker from incidents.

Using native platform capabilities, Cohesity CERT can share a consolidated set of customer-approved operational data with its IR partners, including logs, reports, inventories, and more. This rich dataset, together with Cohesity CERT’s deep data security and recovery expertise, enhances the digital forensics, threat intelligence, and containment capabilities of IR partners, enabling them to perform more effective and efficient analysis of the cyber incident and quickly resolve issues while reducing business downtimes. Customers also have peace of mind their IR partner of choice can collaborate directly with Cohesity to streamline their cyber response and ensure they restore clean data faster.1

“With ransomware, data breaches, and other cyber threats becoming an unavoidable reality, organizations need the assurance that they can bounce back faster, stronger, and smarter,” said Sanjay Poonen, CEO, Cohesity. “Cohesity CERT is a natural extension of our mission to empower organizations with resilient, secure data management. We’re doubling our commitment to our customers by ensuring they have the expertise and tools to navigate and recover from cyber crises effectively. Cyber resilience is the cornerstone of modern cybersecurity, and we are committed to helping our customers achieve it.”

Cohesity CERT is available to all Cohesity customers as part of their existing subscription. Customers can benefit from -

Minimized Business Disruption and Financial Loss: As cyberattacks become more frequent and damaging, Cohesity aids customers in swiftly detecting, investigating, and recovering from incidents, preventing and minimizing extended operational disruptions.

Comprehensive, Coordinated Response and Recovery: Working alongside its broad ecosystem of industry-leading IR partners, Cohesity has developed a methodology that utilizes native platform capabilities and integrations with its Data Security Alliance to provide greater insight into data breaches. This methodology includes a consolidated set of customer-approved operational data, including logs, reports, inventories, and more, which can be rapidly shared with approved parties, including an external incident response provider, to enable more effective and efficient analysis leading to safer and faster recovery after a destructive cyber attack.

24/7 Availability and Multi-vendor Integrated Support: Cohesity CERT handles a wide range of incidents, from sophisticated ransomware and data breaches to targeted attacks, and assists customers whenever cyber incidents occur. Cohesity and its partners maintain communication throughout the response and recovery process, allowing for faster decision-making and a more agile response to cyberattacks.

Specialized Expertise and Proactive Recommendations: Personnel from Cohesity CERT and its partners are seasoned cybersecurity experts with specialized knowledge in incident response, threat intelligence, and forensics, making them an invaluable resource during critical incidents. The service provides actionable recommendations and valuable expertise that help businesses strengthen their defenses over time, enabling customers to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.